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Marie-José Pérec (born 9 May 1968) is a retired French track and field sprinter who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres and is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.

Marie-José Pérec

Pérec at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016
Personal information
Born	(1968-05-09) 9 May 1968 (age 54)[1] Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe[1]
Height	5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (179 cm)[1][2]
Weight	132 lb (60 kg)[2]
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  France Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona 400 m 1996 Atlanta 200 m 1996 Atlanta 400 m World Championships 1991 Tokyo 400 m 1995 Gothenburg 400 m European Championships 1994 Helsinki 400 m 1994 Helsinki 4×400 m relay 1990 Split 400 m
Updated on 23 May 2015.

Athletics career

Pérec won the 1991 World Championships 400 metres title in Tokyo and repeated the feat at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg. She was also the 400 metres champion at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. She entered the 200 metres and 400 metres events at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and won both, thus achieving the second-ever Olympic 200 metres/400 metres gold medal double, after Valerie Brisco-Hooks in Los Angeles 1984. Pérec won the 400 metres title in an Olympic record time of 48.25 seconds, which also ranked her as the third fastest woman of all time. It took 23 years until 2019 before Salwa Eid Naser surpassed her mark to push Pérec to number 4 of all time.

In addition to her Olympic and World titles, Pérec also won the 400 metres title and was a part of the gold medal-winning 4 × 400 metres relay team at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki.

The two 1996 Olympic titles were Pérec's last international titles. In 1997 Pérec shifted to the 200 metres but withdrew at the semi-finals in the World Championships that year and barely raced at all in 1998 and 1999. Having not run a 400 metres race since 1996, Pérec began her Olympic title defense by finishing third in Nice, behind eventual Olympic silver and bronze medalists Lorraine Graham and Katharine Merry. It was the last significant race Pérec ran. On 22 September 2000, she pulled out of the 200 metres and 400 metres events of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, several days before they were due to begin. Pérec claimed that she had been threatened and insulted several times since arriving in Australia and that the Australian press, who were supporting Australian athlete Cathy Freeman, had been trying to sabotage her chances of winning the gold medal in the 400 metres.[3][4]

Pérec trained in Los Angeles, California, with the HSI track team and is listed as a legend on the team's page.[5]

Life after retirement from athletics

Pérec enrolled in the top French business school ESSEC and graduated in 2007 with a Master's in Sports Management.[6]

Pérec is a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club,[7] a group of more than 70 famous elite athletes committed to promoting peace in the world through sports, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.[8]

On 21 October 2012, Pérec was elected president of the Ligue Régionale d'Athlétisme de la Guadeloupe, the governing body for athletics in Guadeloupe.[9]

Pérec participated in the French reality music competition Mask Singer as the Panthère, performing Stromae's "Papaoutai" and Angèle's "Balance ton quoi" before being eliminated in the first episode.

Family

Pérec gave birth to her first child, a son named Nolan, on 30 March 2010. Pérec's partner Sébastien Foucras is the father of the child.

Awards

Pérec was chosen as the French Champion of Champions in 1992 and 1996 by the French sports daily L'Équipe.

On 9 October 2013, Pérec was awarded the Officier de la Légion d'honneur by French President François Hollande in the Élysée Palace. Just before presenting the insignia to Pérec during the award ceremony, Hollande described her as "one of the most brilliant athletes in the history of French athletics". Pérec had received the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1996.[10]

On 16 November 2013, Pérec was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame.

Personal bests

Event	Time (seconds)	Wind (m/s)	Date	Venue	All-time ranking
100 m	10.96	+1.2	27 July 1991	Dijon, France	43rd (15th)
200 m	21.99 (FR)	+1.1	2 July 1993	Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France	21st (9th)
400 m	48.25 (FR), (OR)		29 July 1996	Atlanta, Georgia	4th (3rd)
400 m hurdles	53.21 (FR)		16 August 1995	Zurich, Switzerland	20th (6th)

• Rankings outside the brackets are world rankings
• Rankings inside the brackets are European
• FR = French record
• OR = Olympic record

References

External links

• Marie-José Pérec at World Athletics
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marie-José Pérec". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2018.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Kim Batten	Women's Track & Field ESPY Award 1997	Succeeded by Marion Jones
Sporting positions
Preceded by Gwen Torrence	Women's 200 m Best Year Performance alongside Mary Onyali 1996	Succeeded by Marion Jones
Olympic Games
Preceded by Jean-François Lamour	Flagbearer for  France Atlanta 1996	Succeeded by David Douillet

На других языках

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[de] Marie-José Pérec

Marie-José Juliana Pérec (* 9. Mai 1968 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe) ist eine ehemalige französische Leichtathletin, die in den 1990er Jahren besonders im Langsprint Weltklasse darstellte.

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- [en] Marie-José Pérec

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[fr] Marie-José Pérec

Marie-José Pérec, née le 9 mai 1968 à Basse-Terre en Guadeloupe, est une athlète française.

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[it] Marie-José Pérec

Marie-José Pérec (Basse-Terre, 9 maggio 1968) è un'ex velocista francese, vincitrice di tre medaglie d'oro olimpiche nei 200 e 400 metri piani.

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[ru] Перек, Мари-Жозе

Мари́-Жозе́ Пере́к (фр. Marie-José Pérec; род. 9 мая 1968 (1968-05-09), Бас-Тер) — французская легкоатлетка, специалистка в беге на 200 и 400 метров. Трёхкратная олимпийская чемпионка, двукратная чемпионка мира и двукратная чемпионка Европы. Единственная французская легкоатлетка, трижды первенствовавшая на Олимпийских играх.

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